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Whence comes this seeming prestige that vainglorious Lowell tower should blaze with incandescent light so many, many nights while Dunster, Adams, and Eliot towers carve but grey and humble silhouettes in the midnight sky? Whence comes the warrant for this lone, flamboyant panoply? Lowell House, is't not enough to curdle the bowels of the earth with the hellish bells...
...qualifications for [the Presidency]," continued the Senator from Idaho. "But . . . that brings up the most important pre-convention question that we can consider, and that question is : 'Who is going to determine the [candidate's] fitness and how is it going to be determined?' " A political lone wolf who has spent a lifetime shunning partisan alignments, Senator Borah naturally feared that the Republican nominee might be chosen "in secret conclave behind closed doors long after midnight." "This," he warned, "is not a very good year . . . for exclusiveness in the matter of selecting a candidate for the Presidency...
...condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...
Among his books of poems have been, "A Boy's Will," "North of Boston," "Mountain Interval," "New Hampshire," "West Running Brook," and "A Lone Striker...
Charterites to the nine-man council. Four Republicans were elected. This gave Cincinnati's balance of power to a lone Independent, a dismissed Congregational minister who is now one of Father Coughlin's biggest Protestant apostles, an old-time Pacifist and Single Taxer named Herbert Seeley Bigelow...